CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by canofbars on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:49AM (#25227079)

I would have no problems identifying a minibus either. They typically have writing / phone number on the side and something on the roof. The google captcha is usually fairly permissive with mistakes and will show you a different question if you fail the first.

I'd like to see someone actually show an example of a captcha they were incapable of solving.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by yorwba on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:14AM (#25227255)

> I would have no problems identifying a minibus either. They typically have writing / phone number on the side and something on the roof.

What if the writing accompanying the phone number says "Schlüsselservice Maier"? Some kind of ... shuttle service? Is that a taxi? (It's actually a locksmith.)

Of course these kinds of situations don't really happen for English speakers. I don't think I've ever seen non-English text in a CAPTCHA... Instead you get a picture of some Californian street with palm trees or something. (I assume those streets are in California. Maybe they're actually in Jakarta or elsewhere, in which case I'm sorry for being presumptive.)

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Doctor_Fegg on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:53AM (#25227529)

Crosswalk. It genuinely took me a while to figure out they meant "pedestrian crossing".

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